Posted on 11/05/2004 1:32:01 AM PST by konaice
CLAMART, France (AP) - Doctors fought to keep Yasser Arafat alive as anxious Palestinian officials looked for ways to prevent unrest if their 75-year-old leader, said to be in a coma Friday, dies.
A swirl of reports saying Arafat had died Thursday were quashed by doctors at the French military hospital where he has been treated since being airlifted to France last week. Arafat's aides, however, acknowledged his condition was very serious. On Friday, Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid told Israel TV's Channel Two that Arafat was brain dead and on life support. But a Palestinian spokeswoman denied Lapid's assertion.
"He is in a coma. We don't know the type but it's a reversible coma," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told French RTL radio.
Shahid said Arafat was put under anesthesia to have medical tests, including an endoscopy and a biopsy of the spinal cord.
"The doctors don't have a diagnosis," she said. "All vital organs are functioning. This is why all the doctors say that he could or could not wake up."
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I never said the French doctors were too smart, obviously I was referring to what would be done here in America! LOL
I suppose Kerry has his bags packed to attend the funeral!
Oh. Yeah, here in America, I'm sure somebody would put him in a coma. I'd be happy to do it. LOL
If George Bush would lift the ban on Stem Cell Research. Arafat would get up and walk! (/sarcasm)
Have they surrendered yet?
perhaps he has just 'ascended' to another plane...
or some such line of drivel.
Then how do you know it's reversible? So if it's reversible, then reverse it.
Perhaps we should all be sending france a healthy supply of wooden stakes, no?
I know his code:
six. six. six.
They're probably backdating lots and lots of large checks and are using a copying machine for his signature.
Same thoughts here, esp. in view of our recently past election process. The 'Arafat absconding w/ PLO funds' has been reported off & on for several years along w/ Suha's lavish lifestyle.
Here's one of the more recent/ past stories:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/60minutes/main582487.shtml
They're got him hooked up to jumper cables, trying to get those bank codes, give him a jolt and telling him to blink twice for 2, etc..
If he had Aides, they'll never admit it.
No their REAL problem is that under Islamic Law they have to bury him within 24 hrs of 'death' - and given that Arafat stated that he wanted to be buried on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the PA is trying to figure a way to finesse this without inviting massive Israeli interference
Hehehe!
Arafat's going to be the Palestinian's answer to Elvis,
They'll say he got taken up to the spaceship.
There'll be 'Arafat Impersonators' everywhere.
This is nothing but a cruel attempt to pull the wool
over the eyes of the Palestinian people.
He kept an inventory in that book of all the accounts, their balances, and passcodes..
Well, Imus said that Arafat has AIDS. And one of the other guys said he caught it from MONKEY sex!
Isn't this awful? hehe
I didn't KNOW that Arafat even HAD a monkey. hehe!
This is almost funny!
Hey, terrorist...yes...over here.............It's called DEATH!
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